[Ubuntu Chicago] ubuntu wireless

[Wally Valters]

cd ~ puts you in your home directory...  /home/jason  or whatever it is.

ok now we will extract the tar.   a tar.gz file is a tar (TapeARchive) that
is subsequently gzipped.  we can undo both in one swoop.

cd ~
tar xzf rt2500-cvs*


the switxhes stand for eXtract gZipped File   (czf would create one...  tar
is pretty straight forward)  you cna add v for verbose which will list all
the files as it untars (tar xzvf etc)  Order does not matter on the switches

This will create a subdirectory underneath your home dir...
(like/home/jason/rt2500-cvs-yymmdd) (depending on the date the dir will
change)

Do you understand tab completion in the terminal?  As in from your home dir:
cd rt2 (then hit tab)

cd into that new dir and do a 'ls' to see whats in there.

What do you think we should do next?

Don't worry if you don't know, but poke around looking at filenames in that
structure to see if you can figure it out.


On 8/29/07, jason jenkins <jenkins27 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> OK, I did all 3 of those steps and they seemed to have went well.
>
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